III. Select Orchidea, from the Cape of Good Hope, con- IV. A Letter on the Antiquities of New York, addressed to the Hon. SAM. L. MITCHELL, a Vice President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, Professor of Natural History in the University of the XIII. Account of the good Effects of the White Oxide of Bismuth in a very severe Stomach Affection of a Gentle- man far advanced in years. By G. D. YEATS, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, &c. 295 XIV. On a New Hygrometer, which Measures the Force and Weight of Aqueous Vapour in the Atmosphere, and the corresponding Degree of Evaporation. By § 1. Astronomy, Agriculture, the Arts, &c. 1. Prize Questions for 1820. 2. Rate of Increase in the Vegetation of Wheat. 3. New Stop Cock, for Pneumatic Apparatus. 4. Substitute for a Copying Machine. 5. Dry Rot prevented. 6. Ancient Seeds. 7. Smut in Wheat prevented.. 345 § 1. Mineralogy, Geology, Meteorology, &c. 1. Mineralogical Notices, &c. 2. Boracic Acid. 3. Mag- netic Iron Ore. 4. Analysis of the Wavellite. 5. Fossil Ani- mal Remains. 6. Lignite. 7. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. 8. Earthquakes. 9. Scintillating Limestone. 10. Native Lead and Cinnabar, in America. 11. Aurora Borealis 349 1. New Mercurial Ointment. 2. Method of preparing Ex- 1. Researches on the colours acquired by Metals when heated. 2. Analysis of Mixtures of the Chlorides of Potas- 4. Preparation of Nitric Ether, by M. Bouillon Lagrange. 5. On the Animal Substances which generally accompany Uric Acid in Calculi, by Dr. Gaspar Brugnatelli. 6. Pur- puric Acid. 7. On the Decomposition of Chloride of Silver by Hydrogen and by Zinc, by M. Farraday. 8. On a peculiar Substance from the Thermal Waters of Ischia. 9. On Gluten, and its Action on Guaicum. 10. New Vegetable Alkali. 11. Acids of Arsenic. 12. Oxides of Mercury. 13. Volatility of Oxide of Lead. 14. New Ace- tate of Lead. 15. Purple Colour for Oil Painting. 16. Eco- nomical Mode of rectifying Spirit of Wine. 17. Phos- phoric Acid in Vegetables. 18. An Hydrated Carbonate of Copper. 19. Explosion from Fire Damp. 20. Brittle- ness of Glass. 21. Rotation of Camphor. 22. Effect of the Sun's Rays on Magnetism. 23. New electrical Battery. 24. New Wolfe's Apparatus. 25. New Method of preparing the Purple of Cassius. 26. Fulminating 1. Grecian University. 2. Homer's Iliad. 3. Premiums Royal Institution, Dec. 1819. The following Lectures will be delivered in the Amphitheatre of the Royal Institution, during the ensuing season: On POETRY, by THOMAS CAMPBELL, Esq. On ARCHITECTURE, by JOHN SOANE, Esq., R.A. On the HISTORY of CHEMICAL SCIENCE, by W. T. BRANDE, Esq., Prof. Chem. R. I. On EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, by J. MILLINGTON, Esq., Prof. Mech. R. I. On BOTANY, by Sir J. E. SMITH, Prof. Botany, R. I. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We entreat our Correspondent at Rotheram, to search for the spirit of the Foreign Scientific Journals in the Miscellanea. They are carefully perused, and such extracts made as appear worth preserving. We are obliged by a Letter, signed W.B., and will endeavour to profit by the suggestions therein contained. Concerning the extension and diminution of Copper-plate Engravings, we cannot offer any thing satisfactory. The Letter, therefore, signed J. G. H. remains as the writer has requested. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL, October, 1819. ART. I. A Tribute to the Memory of the late President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. By William Henry, M.D., F.R.S., &c. &c. [This account of the life of the late Mr. WILLIAM HENRY was read to the Literary Society of Manchester, in April 1817.] THE following Tribute to the memory of the late President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester has been drawn up in compliance with a request, expressed to the writer from the chair, at an early meeting during the present session. It would, on some accounts, have been more satisfactory to him, that the office should have fallen into other hands. But, conceiving a compliance with the requisition to be a duty, which he was not at liberty to decline, he has endeavoured to execute it with all the impartiality and fidelity in his power; and he trusts to the candour of the Society for that share of indulgence, which he may reasonably claim, in speaking of one to whom he was so. nearly allied, THE late Mr. Henry was descended from a respectable family, which for several generations, had resided in the county of Antrim. His paternal grandfather commanded a company of foot in the service of James the Second; and during the disturbed times, which, in Ireland, succeeded the revolution, was shot by an assassin in his own garden. The father of Mr. Henry, then an infant scarcely a year old, was taken under the generous protection of a neighbouring nobleman*, who continued it to him during the remainder of his life; and, after being educated in Dublin at his lordship's expense, was brought * Viscount Bulkley. |